Building an Ethical digital bank...Again :) 💥🤩💪👏

Game changing 💥 EdTech In MENA 👏🙌💪

Building an Ethical digital bank 💥🤩💪👏

Helping the best of the best startups launch 🚀 in the UAE 🇦🇪 💪🤗

Making #AbuDhabi and the UAE the digital product capital of the world 🌎💪👏🤗

Making #AbuDhabi the digital product capital of the world 🌎 💪👏🤗

Helping startups 🫶 in the UAE build great products with great tech 💪

We can rebuild...We have the technology... We have the capabilities. Better than before. Better -- stronger -- faster -- The Six Million Dollar Man

Helping the whole tech & product universe in launching and scaling viable digital products that customers love ❤️ -- I share my learnings with teams, companies & individuals to help them win in digital products 💪

Building an Ethical digital bank 💥🤩💪👏

RealBex is a new property wealth services platform under development

NEOM - An opportunity of unprecedented scope for sustainable living, technological innovation, and human progress, incubated an exciting disruptive gig worker platform that intends to revolutionise how global 2000 companies hire talent.

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Instant Cash Global B2B Money Transfer

Changing the FinTech & payments game again... :)

Challenging the status quo of UK SME Business Banking with a new Digital Bank...

Reinventing how SMEs pay their international partners & suppliers

• Relentless understanding of existing & future customer needs• Created & championed disruptive vision & strategy in becoming more than an acquirer• Own full life cycle across product, marketing & sales • Own commercial development for new growth products• Subject matter expert in card payments, big data and POS products• Lead front end & back end tech teams to stay aligned with product vision & customer needs• Instilling MVP principals to test all customer & product assumptions• Identifying key innovative partners to accelerate GTM• Build great teams that think big and execute with speed

• Focused on creating a balanced innovation pipeline of propositions that create immediate income impact to Barclays through incremental concepts, to disruptive concepts that future proof the banks revenue, and market position• Owning the top half of the innovation funnel, becoming the source of NPD, working closely with delivery to ensure MVP, and the embedding of products stays close to the original vision • Developed scouting capabilities to scan tech, social, economic trends for ideation inspiration• Driving the cultural transformation in Barclays in adopting the ‘Lean Startup’ philosophy• Designing the necessary MVP prototyping of new concepts/propositions• Constantly analysing VC investments in start-ups that could disrupt banking• Developed & managed ideation end to end innovation approach from ideation to delivery• Enforced Innovation tool kit to flesh out the steps needed to develop an idea in to a compelling concept• Expert in future commerce/payment capabilities, and how this could shape the future of financial services

• Built Horizon scanning capabilities to scout Innovations across multiple industries in the 0 – 10 year space.• Created unique methodology called The Forward Radar, which robustly evaluates both sustaining and disruptive innovations, predicting their future impact to Barclays, giving recommendations on opportunities that can power customer experience and commercial growth. • Developed Future scenario framework for Barclays that makes sense of disruptive innovations that have no clear application to the bank today. This helped executives to visualize and decide which Innovations had the best potential to move in to incubation• Thought leader and catalyst in driving Barclays Citizenship and shared value strategy.• Built broadcasting channels to push insights and influence mass perception and views on challenging the status quo, • Provided Insights advisory services to a number of senior executives

* Creating new Research IP (frameworks and tools) for the Sales Enablement professional (sales, marketing, product management, and strategy) * Focused on Business Outcome selling, empowering sales to work across all buyer altitudes in having successful meetings, shared vision/success and building the business case* Researching how technology vendor capabilities can drive external impact (impact to partners/suppliers, customers, societal, environment and political) which support and enable their clients Business Outcomes * Producing Forrester reports focused on the Sales Enablement professional

• Applying Forresters Total Economic Impact methodology (TEI) to global blue chip clients who want to understand the business & financial impact of their technology investments• Working closely with clients in creating & validating assumptions & scenarios• Developing benefit models that drive the top & bottom line• Quantifying intangible strategic benefits• Assessing technology business cases, and measuring how they support the business vision

 Sold at executive level to large companies to conduct multifaceted global consulting projects Developing project plans; managing milestones; coordinating internal and external resources to ensure project delivery within timescales & budget  Taking a lead role in managing client satisfaction and project quality Supporting Principal Consultants and Business Development Directors in the sale of customized projects Synthesizing Forrester research themes to assist in proposal writing; aid research analysts and sales in developing research methodology for custom proposals Working with Analysts on project delivery including the management of third-party agencies to field custom research for projects (including vendor selection, data quality control, and adherence to project deadlines) Executing primary/secondary research, and conducting executive interviews Demonstrating advanced capabilities in research and project management including statistical methods

 Creating, developing and evolving relationships with key C level clients on global portfolio accounts Preparing bids & agendas for consulting assignments Qualifying, scoping and programme managing strategic sessions, workshops and consulting projects Presenting & Facilitating Forrester sessions & workshops Constant over performance of quarterly revenue targets Managing the UK pre paid consulting business worth £1.2 million High Business & Commercial acumen, supporting Sales & Business Development  Proactive Management of portfolio clients across multiple verticals (Telecoms/Mobile, Financial Services, IT Services, IT Vendors, Retail, CPG and Government)

 Provided internal I.S. consultancy services to AMEC directors / senior management  Built & Maintained close relationship with all AMEC BU  Supported Market Development Unit in targeting new business thorough innovation (created research papers for AMEC around working in a Carbon Economy & Alternative Broadband Deployment Technologies) Project managed global Oil & Gas I.S projects Created I.S strategies for Oil & Gas projects & contributed, influenced corporate I.S, strategies Managed IT team of 6  Provided informed I.S./Technology advice to AMEC BU Evaluated & Managed Deployment of new technologies for AMEC global BU & Projects Leveraged cutting edge technologies for better International remote working -- new technologies & applications around GSM, GPRS and 3G were assessed and have become part of the I.S. offering  Introduced Free Space optics (FSO) in to AMEC which became the default corporate back up communication links for AMEC sites

Sophax International was created to provide voice termination services in the Indian subcontinent & Middle East. My role was to drum up business from established calling card businesses, negotiate the necessary voice rates & volumes. I also controlled the overall Sophox messaging & go to market strategy.

 Created strategies and managed execution of mobilizing and demobilizing of telecoms, personnel, hardware, software, ensuring data/voice/security are activated on new project sites world wide  Ensuring a high level of QOS for I.S. (Telecoms, Support and Operations) on projects Governing I.S. procedures and change management policies